/r/ClassicalGuitar - Giuliani Jam #2

Giuliani Jam Set List

Bach Jam Submissions

Next Month - "Spooky Jam"

Set List for the Giuliani Jam #2

If you're new to r/ClassicalGuitar, our Jams are a monthly event where we focus on a composer or topic and you get the chance to challenge yourself to work on a piece of music and share your playing with the community. We select some suggested pieces for each month but you are free to submit anything. Whether you're a beginner or expert, we'd love to hear you play! Shamelessly cribbed from r/piano's jam descriptions... check them out!

This month we'll be focusing on Mauro Giuliani for the second time. For me, Giuliani I think will always hold a special place in my heart because his Sonatine was the first full work that I could play all the way through. There was this weird sense of fulfillment and accomplishment when I realized I had gone from "can't play Happy Birthday" to "playing a damned 19th century concerto" (I am not a music student so it's probably not a concerto, but you get the idea).

If you're an advanced intermediate student (mastered first position, reasonably OK with key of "A" / 3 sharps), I highly recommend taking a crack at all of Op. 71 and see what you can do. If you're a Beginner, the Op. 50 No. 20 is a really pretty and relaxing piece, worth the investment in learning.

Have to pull out theOtherWalrus's posting because I don't want it to get lost in the rest of the Bach potpourri. Lots of great stuff in here, and I'm pretty sure this has been the jam with the most participation! ~15 links, ~1500 subscribers. Could it be? 1% of our user-base submitted to this jam? Bravo to everyone, there were quite a few postings in here that I listened to multiple times in a row.

There are a few I probably mislabeled in there and it's possible again that I've missed some submissions. If you have some of the missing BWV numbers post them in a comment and I'll update but I didn't want to delay this jam post any more.

A special thanks for everyone who transcribed music. Please do share your transcriptions or original work. I'll see about putting together some flair for people who post their own transcriptions as a little bonus.

Next Month - Spooky Jam

For October we'll be doing a potpourri / players choice of "spooky music". Whatever music is spooky or haunting to you is fair game. Check the previous jam set-list or results-post for examples of what people played before. I'll throw out the "Legend of La Llorona" as an example of a very spooky story with a traditional song to accompany it.

So... discuss spooky music in the comments, give congrats and maybe a first or second listen to all of the performers who submitted pieces this jam and get some upvotes out there.

...it's basically a really short note "in front of" a your regularly timed / spaced notes. The guy in the first video explains it fairly well at ~2m20s.

It's maybe like "half-a-trill" ... in the score it's got the slur mark above (I think) which means: "connect it" and it's got the slash through the small note meaning... "ignore me for timing purposes, but play me slurred / connected to the subsequent note." You'll play it like a pull off with the 1 finger camping on the C and the pinky pulling off very quickly on the D just below the C.

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